David Chelimsky wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:46 PM, gokul murthy <railsthin...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Please kindly advise me, how to write spec for this. > Even though it seems simple, you've chosen a rather complex situation > to try to learn Rspec from. Did you pick this because you really need > to solve it, or is this just an academic exercise? If the latter, > let's start somewhere simpler, and get to things like simulating IO > later :) > > It is always easiest to start with examples in which you can create an > object with some state, send it a message (call a method), and set > expectations about the result: given/when/then. > > describe Person, "full name" do > context "with a first and last name" do > it "concats the names with a space between them" do > #given > person = Person.new(:first_name => "Gokul", :last_name => > "Murthy") > # when > full_name = person.full_name > #then > full_name.should == "Gokul Murthy" > end > end > end > > I separated out the When and Then to make it clear which is which, but > in practice I'd likely just write this: > > it "concats the names with a space between them" do > person = Person.new(:first_name => "Gokul", :last_name => > "Murthy") > person.full_name.should == "Gokul Murthy" > end > > Now we have a pretty clear picture of how we want to create a Person > and how we want to ask for its name, and what our expected outcome is. > > If you really want to know about specifying IO, let me know and I'll > show you a couple of ways to do it, but they are much less > straightforward. > > Cheers, > David
Hey, I am learning RSpec as well and it would be great if you could show how to test IO. Thanks, Tumas -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
